Programme
International Materials Education Symposium 2025

April 10-11, 2025

Program for International Materials Education Symposium

Symposium Day One: Speaker’s list, April 10

8:30 - 8:45	Coffee and Snacks
8:45	Welcome Address Jessica Gwynne, University of Cambridge Claes Fredriksson, Ansys Academic Development Team
8:50	Welcome Address Dipankar Choudhury, Office of the CTO, Vice President, Research at Ansys
9:00	Session 1: Innovative teaching and course design – Chair Noel Rutter, University of Cambridge
9:00	Keynote Harry Bhadeshia, Queen Mary University of London Unconstrained Learning from Books
9:30	Jessica Gwynne and Robert Thompson, University of Cambridge DoITPoMS – open access educational resource
9:50	Paloma Fernández Sánchez, Abby Cabrera Acles, Alberto Carvajal Diñeiro, Nahia Iraeta Sarasola, Francisco Javier Medel Arraiz and Adrián Jiménez Martínez, University Complutense, Madrid What could a superhero do with EduPack?
10:10	Poster Session Teaser
10:30	Coffee Break & Poster Session
11:20	Gerhard H. Olsen, NTNU, Norway, Bridging Disciplines: Developing a New Study Programme in Chemistry and Materials Engineering
11:40	Robert Thompson and Jessica Gwynne, University of Cambridge Alloy Design – An authentic project in Materials Science
12:00	Vit Jan, Brno University of Technology, Czechia, Materials Science: The Textbook or The Lecture - Which Comes First? A Curiouser and Curiouser Journey Through Learning (for the Teacher)
12:20	Session Discussion and Q&A, Chair
12:40	Lunch Break & Symposium Photograph
14:00	Session 2: AI/ML/LLM in materials teaching and how to develop talents for future industry and employment – Chair Alfred Oti, Ansys UK
14:00	Keynote: Timo Hannay, AI/LLM/ML in Education, SchoolDash
14: 30	Leonard Ng Wei Tat, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Professor LEODAR: Advancing Higher Education through Personalized RAG-based AI Tutoring
14: 50	Penny Thomopoulou, Ansys UK Cambridge,  AI/ML for materials and teaching
15:10	Daphiny Pottmaier, Nottingham Trent University, Sustainability with GenAI for an Inclusive Practice in Engineering Design
15:30	Coffee Break & Poster Session
16:00	Yasmine El Gharoussi and David Mercier, Polytech Clermont and Ansys, From Classroom to Industry: Applying Data-Driven Science to Multiscale Materials Characterization in an EU Project at Ansys
16:20	Faith Nightingale, Queen Mary University of London, Interdisciplinary Professional Engineering Skills at University
16:40	Guillermo R. Facal, University of Buenos Aires, Mechanical Element Design, Mechanical Element Design, Simulation and Manufacturing Laboratory as a support of bacharel subjects, final assignments and student skills
17:00	Session Discussion and Q&A, Chair
	End of Day 1

Symposium Day Two: Speaker’s list, April 11

9:00	Session 3: Materials, Sustainability and inclusivity in the curriculum – Chair Tatiana Vakhitova, Ansys UK
9:00	Coffee and snacks
9:30	Keynote Bill Callister, Concept-Based Learning and Understanding for Materials Courses
10:00	Stefano Ferraresi and Barbara Del Curto, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Novel material trends for sustainability: analysis and systematisation of 95 case studies to map innovative options available to design students, design researchers and practitioners
10:20	Coffee Break
10:50	Rui Goncalves, Nanyang Technological University, Overview of AMDES 2025 and the Virtual Special Issue (VSI) on Teaching Innovation in Materials Science and Engineering Design in the Journal of Chemical Education
11:00	Kathryn Jackson and Itai Vutabwarova, Sheffield University, United Kingdom, Preparing the engineers of the future: teaching materials and manufacturing through degree apprenticeships
11:20	Plinio Fernandes Borges Silva, Giliam Dokter, Peter Hammersberg and Jonas Tuveson, Chalmers Technical University, Sweden, Empowering Future Designers: Evaluating the Role of the Social Impact Audit Tool in Developing Critical Thinking on Social Sustainability
11:40	Session Discussion and Q&A, Chair
12:00	Lunch Break
13:30	Session 4: Sustainability in novel materials and design– Chair Nicolas Martin Ansys France
13:30	Kristin Müller, Marie Gillian Guerne, Brit-Maren Block and Jens Heger,Leuphana University, Lüneburg, Germany, Rethink Textile Production - Developing sustainable concepts for textile industry using production simulation
13:50	Hannah Kelbel, Danchen Zhang and Thomas Gries, Institut für Textiltechnik of RWTH Aachen University, Germany, Effective Approaches for Teaching 4D Shape-Changing Textile Structures in Engineering: The Role of Design-Led Research and Design Thinking
14:10	Session Discussion and Q&A, Chair
14:30	Claes Fredriksson and Patrick Coulter, Looking back on IMES 2009 - 2025
14:50	Dipankar Choudhury, Office of the CTO, Vice President, Research at Ansys, Closing remarks
	Coffee Break/End of Symposium

*The order of speakers on both days is subject to change